Before anyone asks, it was LADS.
I started by posting artwork on twitter (digital), but started posting cosplay as well. This got me way more attention so I did more and pretty soon my account was just me in cute outfits and the occasional cosplay. One of my good friends is a good photographer so he helped me take artsy photos every week. Even though I didn’t show my face I got a good amount of followers and some of my funny posts even went semi viral.
This was before creator payouts on twitter though so I never made any money directly from views.
That is until some guys started dmming me and asking me to sell sfw pics in outfits/poses they wanted. I was uncomfortable with that at first but when someone offered me money to go on a call and just talk with them, I did it. At first this was just a couple guys but after I got more than 7k followers I was getting a new request every few days.
This was all strictly sfw stuff, I never did anything I was uncomfortable with and I was still making really good money for being in high school. About half the money I earned was from calling this one man every morning on my commute. Custom pictures got too bothersome so I stopped doing it and pretty much only did calls.
Unfortunately for me I already had an addiction to LADS before all this. One day (right after birthday) I said I would treat myself and spend $600. That opened the flood gates and within a month I spent over 10k (all my savings at the time)
The money didn’t even feel real to be honest. It went straight from crypto to some shady website that sold App Store gift cards into the ether.
Of all the money I earned doing my calls and cosplay, I spent maybe 5k on buying clothes and cosplay stuff, 3k on presents for my family and everything else went to the stupid addiction.